The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North Africa
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Operation Torch
Commemorated ati
Operation Torch & Operation Overlord
Norfolk House In this building, 24 June 1942 - 8 November 1942, general of t...
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Denise Capstick
Councillor Major Denise Capstick. Bermondsey councillor, Mayor of Southwark and Executive Member for Health and Social Care. Nurse reservist in the army. Rose to the rank of Major in the Territoria...
Francis H. Glennon
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
Bomber Command crews
During WW2 they flew over Germany at night to bomb first industial targets but later whole areas including civilian towns. Their average age was 22 and they went out night after night, knowing that...
Artillery Gardens in Spitalfields
From Bowyers Company: "The word 'artillery' comes from the French 'arc tirer', to draw a bow, and the Artillery Company (later to become the Honourable Artillery Company) was originally a company o...
O. Isard
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes
Founded as the Labourer's Friend Society by Lord Shaftesbury intending to improve working class conditions. It was keen on the provision of allotments. 1844 it changed its name to the Society for I...
Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.
12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society. Born at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire. Drowned crossing a river in Peru.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
SW7, Rosary Gardens, 31
London County Council Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917, actor-manager lived here.
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